And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Maybe leeches, but like the proverbial "roll in the Hay" nobody mentioned the little "Friends" that would join your party.
ReplyDeleteI remember using a lit cigarette to burn off leaches when we were swimming in the pond.
Bugs in the water? Always. Even in swimming pools. It's the bigger things to keep an eye out for.
ReplyDeleteCreature from the Black Lagoon
ReplyDelete“I like to go swimin, with bow-legged women….”
ReplyDeletetheir hair blows in the breezes whilst we swim twixt their kneeses...
DeleteIn Lake Powell little fish would come up and nibble on your toes.
ReplyDeleteBaby Bluegills if I remember correctly.
DeleteAnd dive between their knees!
ReplyDeletePredaceous diving beetles , Toe Biters & plenty of other creepy crawlers.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fine place to pick up a case of swimmer's itch.
ReplyDeleteWaterbugs
ReplyDeleteDon't worry about the bugs.
ReplyDeleteThe cottonmouths and gators eat most of them. ;)
Her tooshie too!
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